I don't really have a strong opinion about this announcement. We'll see I guess.
There has been some clarification of the license. A bit of commentary can be found on Matt Cutts blog. He works for Google and tends to have his head screwed on pretty well from my perspective. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-license-agreement/ ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Casto Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Google Chrome This is true and it would be nice if we could opt out of sending the data like you can in most other programs. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Vince O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No nothing has changed that I can see. Condition 11.1 does acknowledge that you retain the copyright to your stuff (which is nice). Nevertheless, it still gives them the perpetual right to do anything they want (modify, publish, sell, etc.) with anything (of yours) that you post or look at. The sentence I quoted above is still right there. In that vein, clause 2.3 explitly excludes anyone not in a position to grant them such rights from using the software. Children, therefore, may not use this software. On Sep 4, 2:09 am, "Robert Casto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you look at Google Chrome for Windows - Terms and Conditions > Agreement<http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html>it looks like they > have already made the change. Section 9 states that they > are not going to do anything "bad" in relation to section 11. Section 11 now > just says this. > > * 11. Content license from you* > > 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already > hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the > Services. > > I guess they got the message. They made a bunch of other changes and I am > guessing there might be more before this is all over. > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Christian Catchpole <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > wrote: > > >http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10031703-56.html > > > Google backtracks on Chrome license terms. Google said on Wednesday > > that it plans to alter contract terms that gave the search provider > > broad rights to use anything entered into its new Chrome browser. > > > On Sep 4, 1:07 am, "Robert Casto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why does Google want this? > > > My guess is that if they can see everything you look at, they can put ads > > on > > > the page themselves. They won't need to have people put the ads on their > > > website, they will just do it themselves. This could change how ads are > > > placed/shown on websites in a major way. > > > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Vince O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >wrote: > > > > > On Sep 3, 3:56 pm, "Robert Casto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Are you saying that they now want to own all the data that we > > actually > > > > > submit through a browser, not just the data we choose to store in say > > > > Google > > > > > Docs or Gmail? > > > > > It appears to include anything that you so much as look at, not just > > > > what you submit. > > > > -- > > > Robert Castowww.robertcasto.com > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Robert Castowww.robertcasto.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
